THE OLD MAID AND THE THIEF Gian Carlo Menotti Larghetto >—,_ y LAETITIA: [ealta voce] = ———— 4 a tempo Se ee se = o week has gone he = hadoplen ~ ty of chane = = =z ei pect 2 = Poco piit mosso * 7 = [SS but te made noad-van ces Miss Todd schemes and Tab~ors 10 = s = S st — SSS SS SSS SS P | : pS= a), ==) ¢ = 2. = = = + (© 1943, 1954 by Franco Colombo, Ine Copyright Renened and Assigned to BEAM ME UP MUSIC (ASCAP) All Rights Administered by WARNER BROS, PUBLICATIONS US. INC ‘All Rights Reserved inclucle Public Performance Used by Permission— SSS : SSS = — = get him some mon = ey. She robs friends. amt neigh - bors the He Tempo I 8 f P ie SS = fe SS et club and the church He takes all the money with a Ge SSS eo SSS old wo-man sighs and makes lan-guid eves. GSS se — a =Mt 4 ———————— SSS SS SSS All the drawers are wide op - em, all the doors are wn- locked, 16 (with disgust) neith-er seems pleased nor shocked. He eats and drinks and he talks of base-ball and box What acursefor a wo-man is a timid man!23 ral. molto steal me, sweet thief, for time's a is steal » pochiss. riten fleet-ing time __ brief and full of 2 atempo poco rit. theft and tive step—— death comes and Steal my lips steals time and life. Osweet thief, T pray make me steals her prey ‘before they crum - ble Steal my heart = = death must Steal may cheeks be fore they're sunk and de-cayed— aa = fore it will fade. Steal my lips, riten. a tempo